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by throw-ru-938 1096 days ago
> what makes Russia objectively powerful in the international arena?

Could it just be inertia of thinking from the Cold War? The USSR was known to be powerful, and Russia is kinda the USSR, so it's assumed Russia has to be kinda powerful.

It's going to be interesting to observe how will Russian standing in the world change, now that the war is revealing that the Tsar has no clothes.